Improvement in bee-hives



militari gisten @sind @Wine DAVID COLLQM, OF

TALLMADGEQOHIO.

Letters Patent' No. 94,186, dated August 31, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT BEE-'HIVES The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same. g

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, DAVID CoLLoM, of Tallmadgq Summit county, Stn-te of Ohio, have invented n new and improved Bee-Hive; endl do hereby declare that of one lapping pest the corner of the others, it forms in shape one square hive.

b b, Figure 3, are four honey-boxes, set on top of the hiving-boxes, and over these isplnoed the oep A, which shuts down over the ends of hiving-boxes l, 2, 3, 4, resting on the cleats s s s s, nnd thereby holdingr the hiring-boxes together. (See W W' W XV, Figure 4.)

On the inside corner of each hiving-box is an open'- ing or gate, (see c, iig. 2,) for the bees to pass from one box to the other.

D is an opening into the honey-boxes, for Same purpose.

Fig. 4 represents the top of the boxes.

Now, when the hive is ready to swarm, the cap A is removed; also the honey-boxes b b. Then either one of the hiving-boxes may be removed and placed with three other like boxes, forming another hive,

when, if the queen-bee is in the box removed, the bees will go to work, and the hive is swarmed or divided.

If the box removed should not happen to contain a.

queen, another con be removed, and their place in the -f old hive supplied with an empty hiVing-box.

VVhnt I claim as my invention, :md desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In the construction of a. hive, with the four hivingboxes as described, inrcombinzttion with the cap A, the elents s s, for-the purpose set forth.

l DAVID OOLLOM.

Witnesses:

A. B. RICHMOND, ROE REISINGER 

